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Originally Posted by derrida
How exactly were the Left involved with the approval, under Menachem Begin, of Yassin's application to start the "humanitarian" organization Mujama?
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Care to substantiate that statement? I think you're mistaking Jordan's role as Israel's, so if you're going to implicate Israel's role beyond humanitarian aid you're going to have to give some evidence. Hamas registered with Israel as an Islamic Association, and Israel supported it passively. That's all we know.
It was Israel's peaceniks who pushed for ties to Palestinian groups while Begin's government formally attempted a different approach, such as his rejected plan offering Gaza up back in the 70's.
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Originally Posted by derrida
You mention the Islamic University of Gaza, which was Islamicized only after an administrative coup, aided by Israeli authorities
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Where'd you get that idea?
It's unlikely you would have supported Israel closing a school down, especially a religious school, the way they did with Birzeit University. I'm also not going to validate the idea that not intervening is the equivalent of perpetrating or aiding the act. There was no indication any group would prove to be more hostile then Fatah, and it's militant wing didn't arrive until 5 years later. The UNRWA is the only foreign body which has support Hamas continously, not Israel.
See, Sadat punished the Palestinians by cutting them off from his Universities. Long before Islamic University was "Islamicized" (terminology which didn't even exist at the time), turned into a militant hotbed, Gaza has become a hotbed of religious extremist thugs enforcing a street vigilante version of Sharia law.